The European Climate Initiative (EUKI) finances climate action projects in eight core areas: Climate policy, energy, buildings and municipalities, mobility, agriculture, soils and forestry, awareness, climate-aligned finance and sustainable economy. On this page you find information on the selection procedure for projects applying under the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) financing programme.
| Status: Open Budget: between 120,000 and 1 million EUR per project Submission: 12 January 2022 |
General Information
As part of the annual EU-wide selection procedure, organisations are selected that put forward promising ideas for climate action in Europe. The projects are selected in two rounds.
1st Stage | Preparing a project outline
For the first stage in the procedure, informative project outlines should be prepared in English, indicating the issue to be addressed, project goals and planned measures. These must be submitted by the deadline using only the online application tool on the EUKI website. All project outlines received in full by the deadline will be evaluated. On the basis of the available budget and the selection criteria defined in the information on financing, applicants with promising project outlines will then be asked to develop and submit a full project proposal.
The link for the submission of project outlines as well as important information and guidelines for the first round of the selection procedure will be published by 23 November 2021 in the box to the top right.
2nd Stage | Preparing a project proposal
Organisations on the shortlist will then be asked in writing to submit a full project proposal (second stage in the procedure). This proposal must be submitted within approximately four to six weeks.
Information sessions on proposal development will be offered to the organisations selected. It is provisionally scheduled to take place in June 2022.
Incomplete project applications – including applications without English translations – can result in exclusion from the selection procedure and thus from any project funding.
Projects which are not selected for financing will be notified in writing.
Please find templates and helpful documents for the second round of the selection procedure in the box to the bottom right.
Eligibility Criteria
Prospective implementers must have their official office in an EU Member State or be registered there. Prospective implementers from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in particular are encouraged to submit project proposals. In individual cases, interested parties from EU candidate countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey) may also apply for financing as implementing partners. Bilateral and multilateral consortia are equally welcome to participate; as a rule, however, the number of implementing partners (in addition to the implementer) must not exceed four.
Prospective financing recipients must be legal entities endowed with legal capacity. Individuals are not eligible for financing. In addition, prospective financing recipients must be non-profit organisations or belong to one of the following categories:
- Non-governmental organisations
- Universities, academic and educational institutions
- Regional and local authorities
- Non-profit enterprises
Budget
Once selected, you between 120,000 and 1 million EUR per project covering one of EUKI’s core areas: climate policy, energy. buildings and municipalities, mobility, agriculture, soils and forestry, awareness, climate-aligned finance and sustainable economy.
The following approaches can be pursued individually or in combination:
- Capacity development
- Creation of Networks
- Implementing policies and measures, developing strategies and conducting feasibility studies
- Dialogue formats, dissemination and education
Selection procedure
The application window for the selection procedure of the 6th call of project ideas is open from 23 November 2021 to 12 January 2022.
The projects provisionally selected will be asked to submit a full project proposal, probably in early June 2022. The first projects are scheduled to be launched in September 2022.
Guidelines and Working Aids:
EUKI Guidelines on Legal, Commercial and Budgetary Procedures
EUKI Guidelines on Project Planning and Monitoring
Working Aid EUKI Project Development
FAQs 6th EUKI Call for Project Ideas